{"nrhp_refnum":"78001878","name":"Plaza Hotel","other_names":["Plaza Hotel and Grand Army Plaza"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Fifth Ave. and Fifty-ninth St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"New York","county":"Manhattan","state":"NY","lat":40.76448043100007,"lon":-73.97446176395741,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1978-11-29","is_nhl":true,"nhl_designated_date":"1986-06-24","areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Commerce","Art","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A district at Fifth Avenue and 59th Street in Manhattan made up of the Plaza Hotel, an eighteen-story French Renaissance hotel built 1905-1907 to plans by Henry J. Hardenbergh, and Grand Army Plaza, the public square in front of it designed by Thomas Hastings in 1913.","why_significant":"The hotel is presented as one of the most distinguished examples of early twentieth-century American architecture and has been closely tied to the social life of New York for seventy years. Grand Army Plaza is significant as a carefully planned example of the City Beautiful movement. It contains the Pulitzer Fountain with Karl Bitter's Pomona and Augustus Saint-Gaudens' Sherman statue.","narrative":"At the corner of Fifth Avenue and Central Park South stands an eighteen-story hotel of white brick and marble, built in 1905-1907 to designs by Henry J. Hardenbergh in the French Renaissance style. It replaced an earlier hotel of the same name from 1890. Its facades are organized into a base, shaft and crown, with corner turrets, gables, and a steep green mansard roof with tiers of dormers. A 1921 wing added about three hundred rooms, and public rooms such as the Palm Court, Oak Bar and Edwardian Room keep early features. Facing the hotel is Grand Army Plaza, laid out in 1913 by Thomas Hastings of Carrere & Hastings. It holds the Pulitzer Fountain, crowned by Karl Bitter's statue of Pomona, and Augustus Saint-Gaudens' statue of General Sherman. The district was listed for its architecture, its role in the city's social life, and the plaza's City Beautiful design, which forms a formal entrance to Central Park.","period_of_significance":"1900-","architect_builder":"Henry Janeway Hardenbergh; Thomas Hastings","architectural_style":"French Renaissance","criteria":[],"status_note":"Hotel exterior described as unchanged; interiors retain many original features, with repeated refurbishing and a 1921 addition. The form lists the property as occupied.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:39.179068-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/78001878.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/78001878/915a5fe5c4-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/78001878/915a5fe5c4-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Yarl","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:New_York_-_Manhattan_-_Plaza_Hotel.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Yarl</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:New_York_-_Manhattan_-_Plaza_Hotel.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75319827","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plaza_Hotel","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1066676"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/manhattan/plaza-hotel-78001878/"}